Story type: Discovery

  • Next-generation degradable 3D meshes to repair POP

    A debilitating condition affecting one in four women is desperately crying out for a solution, and the next generation of treatments to repair the damage of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) has just come a big step closer.…  Read more

    Dr Kallyanashis Paul is a POP researcher in the Translational Tissue Engineering Research group in The Ritchie Centre.

  • Genetic analysis CAPS search for a cure

    A rare and debilitating group of autoinflammatory diseases is closer to a cure thanks to a world first genetic analysis project at Hudson Institute.…  Read more

    Professor Seth Masters and Dr Shouya Feng

  • Too much of a good thing: fine-tuning newborn resuscitation

    Latest research at Hudson found that a simple change in how oxygen therapy is given can help protect the babies brain during newborn resuscitation.…  Read more

    Dr Shiraz Badurdeen, Professor Graeme Polglase and Dr Emily Camm

  • Stem Cells: Hope on the horizon for preterm babies

    Pioneering Australian research, undertaken by a collaboration of Monash Health’s Monash Children’s Hospital, The School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University, and Hudson Institute of Medical Research, has successfully demonstrated the feasibility and safety of using a baby’s own cord blood-derived cells as a potential treatment for extremely preterm infants.…  Read more

    Dr Lindsay Zhou and Associate Professor Atul Malhotra

  • Uncovering the cellular secrets of RNA editing

    Professor Carl Walkley heads the RNA Biology and Innate Immune Sensing Research Group at Hudson Institute of Medical Research and their latest research, published in Science Immunology, sheds new light on these crucial processes.…  Read more

    L-R: Scott Taylor, Ankita Goradia, Jacki Heraud-Farlow and Carl Walkley

  • Harnessing a natural killer to fight lung cancer

    Associate Professor Dan Gough and his team are studying how to make these cold tumours visible to the immune system and prevent them spreading to other parts of the body.…  Read more

    Dan Gough in the Lab at Hudson SQ fight lung cancer

  • Childhood blood cancer: new treatment approach

    Dr Catherine Carmichael aims to identify the key mechanisms that drive development of an aggressive form of childhood blood cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).…  Read more

    Dr Catherine Carmichael in the lab at Hudson

  • Early aldosterone linked to heart risk in youth

    Unprecedented access to a unique group of Australians is allowing researchers to study links between raised aldosterone levels and elevated cardiovascular risk in various age groups – with important findings for heart health. This research is shedding new light on aldosterone heart risk, a critical factor in cardiovascular health.…  Read more

    Associate Professor Jun Yang at Hudson Institute

  • Understanding the how and why of preterm brain injury

    Researchers at Hudson Institute of Medical Research have now uncovered a key process that causes brain injury, offering hope that new, targeted treatments could be created.…  Read more

    Associate Professor Flora Wong and Dr Nhi Trang

  • New treatment hope for perinatal lung and brain injury

    Hudson Institute researchers are lifting the lid on a treatment promising the benefits of stem cells but none of the drawbacks, offering potential to reduce the lifelong impacts of perinatal lung and brain injuries.…  Read more

    Tamara Yawno, Naveen Kumar, Mikee Inocencio, Hamid Bidkhori